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COMBINED SOISSORS AND PENCIL HOLDER.

Patented July 19, 1881.

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- UNITED ,STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. ,WOODWARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ris'srenoa ro JOSEPHREOKENDORFER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SCISSORS A ND PENCILHOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,508, dated July 19,1881.

Application filed March 2, 1881. (No model.)

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN H. WOODWARD, of New York city, New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Oombined Scissors andPencil Holders or Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement has reference, mainly, to that kind of article which isshown and described in Letters Patent toBenson,No.235,7 26, datedDecember 21, 1880. I desire it to be understood, however, that it isapplicable to scissors generally, and also to scissors movable in aninclosing tubular case, whether that case at the other end be providedwith or adapted to receive some other article or not;

In carrying out my improvement I adopt the combination of elements whichcharacterizes the said Bensons patented devicethat is to say, thecombination, with a tubular case, of scissors mounted on a slidingsupport in the case, and provided with a spring acting. to spread apartthe handle ends of the scissors, so that when closed and retractedwithin the case they Will bear with yielding pressure against the wallsof the latter. The improvement which I have made is in the spring, whichI form and arrange as hereinafter shown and described, so that it actsat one and the same time not only to spread apart the handle ends of thescissors, but also to press together and in contact with one another thecutting faces or edges of the scissor-blades.

The nature of my improvement will be readily understood by reference tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a deviceembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the spring detached. Fig. 3is a view of the scissors detached.

The sheath or case A shown in the drawings, like that shownin the BensonLetters Patent, above referred to, is formed at one end to be apencil-holder or pencil-point protector, having a slit or slot, a, andan annular shoulder, b, to limit the extent to which the pencil B can beinserted. I wish it, however, to be distinctly understood that whenscissors containing my improvement are combined with an inclosingtubular case or sheath the latter may be formed and arranged to receiveonly the scissors, or it may be provided with or adapted to receive atthe end opposite the scissors end any desired article, whether a pencilor anything else.

The general arrangement of the scissors is 5 5 the same as that shownand described in said Bensons patent. They are mountedon a block, 0,which fits, and is capable of sliding back and forth in, the tube orcase A, and the block can be thus moved by a sliding external sleeve,

and between the handle ends is the spring h,

fixed to the block 0 or blade g, and bearing at its free end against theblade g in such manner as to spread apart the handle ends of the blades.The spring isformed at its free end at one side (the side adjoining thatside of blade 9 on which the cutting face or edge is) with a tongue, h,which projects beyond the end, so that when the latter bears against theinner face of the handle end. of blade g the tongue will project upalongside of the handle end; The edge h of tongue h adjoining the handleis beveled or inclined as shown, and

the spring is so set that when the scissors are shut the handle end ofblade y will travel down the inclined edge W, and will thereby be forcedlaterally in such direction as to cause the cutting-edge of the'blade gto press closely against the other blade. In this way the spring has thetwofold function of opening the scissors and at the same time ofexerting lateral pressure upon the blades in such manner as to press andhold their cutting edges or faces in contact with one another.

It is manifest that in lieu of an incline, h

on the spring tongue or projection, the blade 0 9' may be formed withthe incline side, and

the adjoining edge or side of the tongue or projection-may be madestraight.

I remark that the tube or case A, as to that portion which contains theshears or scissors, 9 5

can be made oval in cross-section instead of cylindrical, with a view topermitting the em ployment of scissors of larger size.

Havingdescribedmyinvention, whatIclaim, the blades are closing as andfor the purposes and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is shown anddescribed. 10

In combination with the scissors, the spring In testimony whereof I havehereunto set my arranged between the interior opposite faces hand this1st day of March, 1881.

5 of their handle ends, and provided at its free JOHN H. WOODWARD.

end with an inclined extension or projection, Witnesses: which extendsup alongside the adjoining han- LEOPOLD AUSBASHER, dle end toexertlateral pressure thereon when JOE W. SWAINE.

